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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Eyewitness: Radical Islam fanning French riots

Rioting French Muslims' violence may "remind us of theintifada," but anti-Semitism does not appear to be playing a key part in thecurrent riots, according to Yves Azeroual, editor of the Tribune Juive.

While admitting that the French government had refused to admitanti-Semitic motivation behind attacks in 2000, "in the past two years, with thenew government, the situation has improved. Now there is an agreementbetween the Interior Ministry and the Jewish community over the number andnature of the attacks, and that number has definitely gone down."

Azeroual, who was in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Clichy and other sitesof recent rioting, said he wasn't surprised by the outbreak of violence, whichhe said had been brewing for years but was fomented by a rise in radical Islamin France. Fullarticle here

While azeroual does admit the riots are fueled by radical islam, He denies the most important factor. To say anti semitism is not a key factor is pure insanity. What does a agreement with the interior mionistry have to do with the supposed decline in anti semitism ?Frankly i do not care if the attacks are terror or anti semitec or a combination of both.As long as jews are being attacked france has a problem, Which for the most part they dont really care about.

When I think of ways to meet the crisis, I can only identify2: active advocacy and economic sanction. Would you write to Chriac, French PM,and note that your planned trip to France is being cancelled until France beginsto educate its population to the dangers of hate, protect its Jewish citizensand use the law to countenance no act of terror against its residents.

Why anyone would want to go to france to begin with is beyond me, Come visit israel instead.

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:32:59 -0400I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding thisto everyone on all my e-mail lists...I will not sit back and do nothing." FraneGrossman

Nowhere have the flames ofanti-Semitism burned more furiouslythan in France: In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. InMontpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues inStrasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil.

A Jewishsports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statueof Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" were painted.

InBondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metalbars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has beenattacked three times in the last 14 months.

According to the police,metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents per day since Easter.Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jewsto the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews."

The weekly journal LeNouvel Observateur published an appalling libel: It said Israeli soldiers rapePalestinian women, so that their relatives will kill them to preserve "familyhonor."

The French ambassador to Great Britain was not sacked -- and didnot apologize -- when it was learned that he had told guests at a London dinnerthat the world'stroubles were the fault of "...that shitty little country,Israel."

"At the start of the 21st century," writesPierre-AndreTaguieff, a well-known social scientist, in a new book, "we are discovering thatJews are once again select targets of violence. . . Hatred of the Jews hasreturned to France." But of course, it never left. Not France; not Europe.

Anti-Semitism, the oldest bigotry known to man, has been a part ofEuropean society since time immemorial. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, openJew-hatredbecame unfashionable; but fashions change, and Europe is reverting totype. To be sure, some Europeans are shocked by the re-emergence of Jew-hatredall over their continent. But the more common reaction has beencomplacency."Stop saying thatthere is anti-Semitism in France," President Jacques Chirac scolded a Jewisheditor in January. "There is no anti-Semitism in France."

French Anti-Semitism: "Finally and long overdue, your people,oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: nowyou enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jewsnonetheless." FranzGrillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author.

A gunman opened fire on akosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France; aJewish couple in their 20s were beaten up by five men inVilleurbanne, France.The woman was pregnant; a Jewish school was broken into and vandalized inSarcelles, France. This was in the past week.

According to theAnti-Defamation League, from September 9, 2000, at the start of the intifada,through November 20, 2001, there were some 330 acts of anti-Semitism just in andaround Paris. In addition to literally scores of firebombing of synagogues, justbefore Rosh Hashanah, 200 Arabs attacked Jews on the Champs Elysees. The pacehas only picked up since then:

In December, a French cinema in Parisrefused to allow a Hanukah showing of Harry Potter to 800 Jewish childrenbecause of French-Palestinian threats (the threats were confirmed by Frenchpolice who then went on to do nothing, not even giving details). It was oneincident in an eventful month when synagogues continued to be firebombed and aJewish kindergarten was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti and set ablaze.

We can understand anti-Semitism among the French people. There isnothing the French love like their traditions and, on the question of hatingJews, they certainly have tradition galore. What, however, can explain thesometimes muted, sometimes defensively outraged reaction of French officials?

Simple. There are approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 Muslims presentlyliving in France and many more arrive daily. There are only a bout 600,000 Jewsstill living in France. Moreover, France is the number one European exporter toIraq, totaling over two billion dollars per year in exports since 2000. To thosewho are at a loss to explain why French elected officials seem "helpless" tostem the tide of anti-Semitism, I say that something smells awfully Vichy aroundhere. So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely aperson with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, todo, at least, these three simple things:

First, care enough to stayinformed. Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is notyour fight.

Second, boycott France. Only the Arab countries are moretoxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil andhatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes andtheir foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If weare resolved we can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know aboutthe French, we most certainly know that they are as a cobweb in a hurricane inthe face of well directed pressure.

Third, send this along to yourfamily, your friends, and your co-workers. Think of all of the people of goodconscience that you know and let them know that you and the people that you careabout need their help.The number one best selling book in France is"September 11: The Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit thePentagon. Our only strength is the strength of our community and there can be nocommunity without communication. This is really scary stuff. Read it verycarefully and thoroughly. We cannot allow this to continue

Ok i will keep this short, First off chirac sounds just like shimon peres "It is a great mistake to learn from history. There is nothing to learn from history."(M'aariv interview, 1993)

I'm sick of people quoting the dogs at the ADL, The donkey's there are anti semites themselfs who labled kahane "racist" The ADL basically wants all jews to assimilate and stop being reminded they are jews. AND so i will say this, Anti semitism is good. G-d forbid killings or beatings. But spray paintings and curses are good. It reminds the lost jew who he really is AND FOR THE LOVE OF HASHEM GET THE F*** OUT OF FRANCE!!!!! Gee.........You know our ancesstors gave up everything to move to israel, Some walked from yemen. Others walked from russia. And the land of milk and honey was a swamp infested wasteland...And you golus jews.. You poor lost souls can get a free flight to israel with all your bags A single person would get 3500$ ebsorption basket and up to 5000$ Financial aid.What is your excuse ?? How can anyone be a patriotic frenchman ? Its spitting in the face of the land of israel and all those who sacraficed their lives so we could have a land here...